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Horrified vs Shrinking - What's the difference?

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Horrified is a related term of shrinking.


As verbs the difference between horrified and shrinking

is that horrified is (horrify) while shrinking is .

As an adjective horrified

is struck with horror.

As a noun shrinking is

the act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.

horrified

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Struck with horror.
  • * 2003 , John E. Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic , page 358
    • No one was more horrified than Chauncey Goodrich, scion of an old, elite family in Hartford

    Verb

    (head)
  • (horrify)

    • shrinking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.